Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-06
THE PANHANDLE.
Base SANDERS Il, garding the Garden
spot q TtXss EmanBfing from
Official Sources
The Denver Road Completed jEto Oldham
County-other Road. Heading for
the Great Northwest,

CLARENDON, 1LX., Sept. ,, l-Sl.
To The Editor OF the Gazette.
as most Of the Inquiries in regard TO
the Panhandle are from sections reached
By THE GAZETTE, beg leave TO present
TO your readers C few facts heretofore
comparatively unknown. The Psnhap-
de, by reason Of Its former insccessi-
bi.ty and Tie consequent ignorance re-
garding il, has been peculiarly uhfortu-
nate in being slsndered without opportu-
My for refutstiOn. The United States
Bureau OF Animal Industry has, in It's ofIi-
C.Sl capacity, declared the PsLnaCdle 10
De portion q the district infected by
the Texas fcyG~, although I'D case Of the
lind can b5 found wnere it has origin
atad north Of the Texas and Pacific
line Of read. The Injury this has
caused US can be readily cCmprehended
when ii Is understood that by far our
most important industry is the traffic in
live cattle. United States biologists,
woo never saw the Panbsndle, have de-
sc:i5ad it IS C. desert vase, when, in
fact, Go country in the world can boast CT
50 -arge 8 proportion CT tilIable soil.
This season has been the dryest in five
years and yet Mr.. Geo Tying IreCeiver Of
the FrsnC8lyn Land and Cattle Company,
res 5000 bushels of oats raised this year
up0a lis lands in Carson county, and Mr.
:. G. Murdoch OF Clarendon asgathered
three tons per acre Of mellow maize from
his farm near town. The Rowe brothers
are now making their fourth cutting Of
alfalfa from their ranch in the eastern
portion of this county. Crops in
Wheeler county are exceptionally good
AID the whole country is in prosperous
c nditiOn, notwithstanding the whole
sale SANDER 20 which it has been sub.
ected.
The record IN the United States Signal
Service Ctlice st Fort Elicit shows that
during the seven years OF its existence
there has been but three months in which
so rsin fell, and that there was esch year
sn abu0&nCe OF rain in the spring and
summer months.
From the present indications it is prob
able that the Panhandle will IN the near
future have q net work of railways. The
Fort Worth and Denver is completed
into Oldham county, to within q few
miles Of Tascosa, and will by spring be
connected with Denver City. The kausa s
Southern has been completed to c. n adam
City, and by November l will be com
plcted tc Panhsndle, from Wherce s tap
twenty miles long will be built to the
Fort Worth and Denver. The Chicago
and Rock Island aud the St. L5his and
San Francisco have signifed their
intention 10 build immediately into
the Panhandle, the officials OF the
latter intimating hat Will be pushed 4
from Sepuipa, l. T, this fall, aud the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railway
Company in their recent prospectus pro
eCt their line northWard from Kerryille,
through the Panhandle, imme diately west
Of the Indian Territory.
The population has increased 100 per
cent. in the last six months, and five
towns h2ve been added 20 the three Of
three months ago. Dorley, Wheeler,
Oldham, ChildreEs, Lipscomp, Potter and
HemphiU are organized counties, the
latter four having organized in The last
ninety d4yS. The town OF Clarendon has
risen from CuOusidesuetude' to q
race q commercial importance end
houses are being built as fast as lumber
can be procured, In illustration of the
boom l mention the fact that the
foundations OF eight houses we're
laid to-day. Eighty-fve thousand dol
lars worth of lots have been sold al Can
adian City, and in several towns il Il e
Panhandle land that was worth only 50
per acre three months ago, is selling with
astonishing rapidly st $40 per front loot.
In some of the counties where there
we re but q scant dozen sections of public
SCHOOL land taken up under the old law,
there remain only as many not located by
settlers awaiting the classification under
the new law. The high rate OF wages
and the demand for labor, cfer induce
ments to the poor man eXCelled by few
other countries, but no one should come
here with the Intention of farming Tor q
support without sufficient money to fence
MS land and to support him for
q year. Fortunately for US, the ruin
GUS system Of mortgsging land and crops
10 the merchant for future supplies is IN
known and not likely to be adopted in the
nesr future, thus compelling the farmer
to trust to his own resources, and to
operate his business on his own aud not
borrowed capital, and real estate is too
cheap now TO institute renting system.
But few years ago the city Of Fort
Worth itself dld not exist, and the places
Of business, the busy streets, the sur
rounding gardens and adjacent farms
were pronounced an uninhsbitaple will
derness.
In these few years the tide of popula-
ton has eddied into q populcus city,
ard, sweeping westward, has built
Up score CT smaller towns to
larger size than any Of Fort Worth's
most sapguine christeners ever dared 81
first to hope for it, snd daily, along hel
tributary railways, towns spring up like
palaces o. the rubbing of Allsddln's lamp.
Is it not, then, safe to predict that ter
years hence Fort Worth will have treblec
her population and that somewhere il
the Panhandle city will arise as large a:
the Fort Worth Of to-day,
ORCENETH G. FISHER.